Monthly Archives: March 2013
The Moon Hoax has Landed
The Paper by Lewandowsky Oberauer and Gignac “NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science” (hereafter LOG12) has finally been published in Psychological Science The very fact of its publication … Continue reading
David Miliband’s Sanitary Towels for Africans
David Miliband was Foreign Secretary, and very nearly the next Prime Minister. Now, according to the Daily Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-miliband-quit-mp-labour-1786858 he’s giving up politics and going to run the International Rescue Committee charity in New York. “It’s his dream job” says … Continue reading
Lewandowsky Timeline
This page provides a timeline for understanding the two papers by Lewandowsky et al. which discuss conspiracist ideation among climate sceptics. I shall be updating it continuously. Additions and hints on formatting welcome. LOG12 “NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) … Continue reading
Lew’s Talk costs Libels
[Update 2 April 2014: to those linking here from http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2014/04/reviewer-journal-wilts-under-climate-of-intimidation/ McKewon’s article is full of inaccuracies, which will be addressed soon] This is the letter which I’ve posted at http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/Recursive-Fury-Facts-misrepresentations.html#comments and http://www.skepticalscience.com/Recursive-Fury-Facts-misrepresentations.html and emailed to info@frontiersin.org This is the letter I’ve … Continue reading
Lew’s Crew’s Loose Screws: by Brad Keyes
This is a comment by Brad Keyes on the “Frontiers” thread under Lewandowsky’s paper at http://www.frontiersin.org/Personality_Science_and_Individual_Differences/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00073/abstract It is reproduced entirely without his permission, because I like it. It’s followed by an extract from http://verdanthopes.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/tomorrow-belongs-to-us.html Which Brad Keyes kindly pointed out. … Continue reading
Lew’s Crew: The Plot Sickens
“Recursive fury: conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation” (Lewandowsky et al, 2013) was pre-published at http://www.frontiersin.org/Personality_Science_and_Individual_Differences/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00073/abstract on 05 Feb 2013. It was taken down following a complaint to the journal’s editor by Jeff Condon, … Continue reading
Stephen Emmott: “Ten Billion” – a Review
[Update July 8th 2013 This article is featured on the first page of Google hits for “Stephen Emmott” + “Ten Billion”. If you’ve come here for information on the book published in Britain today, please go to https://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/category/stephen-emmott/ and explore … Continue reading
Recursive Fury: Lew’s Waterloo
Lewandowsky et al 2013 is an exercise in content analysis which aims to show that blog comment on a previous paper (LOG12) exhibits “conspiracist ideation”. It contains two major errors: 1) It subsumes all criticism of LOG12 under the heading … Continue reading
Lew’d Cooked and Cornered
The Lewandowsky affair has taken off again with an article at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/09/stephan-lewandowsky-and-john-cook-making-things-up/ by Brandon Shollenberger which establishes that the Lewandowsky et al 2013 article “Recursive Fury” misquotes Foxgoose, Nathan Kurz and me. In comments Foxgoose, Barry Woods, and Joanna Nova … Continue reading
Dirty Deben does Drugs and Potty Talk
Lord Deben has been at it again. His participation in a debate on the ethics of global warming policy at the von Hügel Institute, Cambridge, is the subject of another post at Bishop Hill http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/3/7/the-ethics-of-global-warming-policy.html Attendees were unanimous that Deben … Continue reading
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